23 Oct
2018
23 Oct
'18
11:10 a.m.
On 10/23/18 10:46 AM, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote:
I remember tinkering around with the Star, which by
the time I was at the company, had been pretty much put out to pasture. The environment
was quite intuitive, and easy to use, though it took me a little while to get my mind
wrapped around the concept of Smalltalk, because I had no exposure to object environments
prior to playing with the machine. I was surprised at how responsive the machine was
considering that the tech in it by that time was pretty old. It was definitely an
education playing with it. I wonder whatever happened to that machine? Hmmm...maybe I
should send out some Emails to folks that I worked with back then.....
Finding an 8010 running Smalltalk is one of the missing links.
So far, no one has been able to get the 6085 images working I recovered a few years ago.
8010 and 6085 Smalltalk were marketed by Xerox Special Information Systems in Pasadena
Some information is available under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/xsis
"Golden Tiger" which evolved into Analyst were developed for a three letter
government agency.